The actual question I wanted to ask him was if the construal of Blackness along spatiotemporally invariant lines under the sign of ‘always already outside the human’ is aimed at developing a critical approach akin to what ecological humanities are doing but within Black studies.

Ecological humanities I mean like transhumanism, posthumanism, Plantationocene, Androcene, etc. All have critical challenges to orthodox anti-capitalism and try to go beyond western ontology of the human in some way, shape or form. And are framed often times as the righter ethics

At least, thas how they were kicked to me during my short stint in school. Then, Afropessimism/Black optimism were brought to my attention and seemed to claim similar territory over the ‘right ethics’ visavis nonhuman or more-than-human questions, but via appeals to Blackness

That is my understanding of AP’s appeal and this is inspired also by how many of my Anarkata comrades who do fw AP deploy its assumptive logics. So I have claimed that that is where it’s intervening and I wanted to hear him speak to if that is true or not

If that is true, it would explain striking similarities between the affective emphasis in the metatheoretical aspects of some ecological humanities (and lots of critical theory of a particularly contemporary anti-materialist variety) and what I detect in AP.

Relatedly, it would also explain the canon of thinkers often referenced. It would explain why it is PARTICULAR historical and spatial iterations of radical political and analytical projects that gets castigated, to the exclusion of understanding a wider view of said projects.